Re: [rfc] lock bitops

[Nick Piggin]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:06:32AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:37:09PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > --
> > Introduce test_and_set_bit_lock / clear_bit_unlock bitops with lock semantics.
> > Add non-trivial for powerpc and ia64. Convert page lock, buffer lock,
> > bit_spin_lock, tasklet locks to use the new locks.
> 
> The names are a bit clumsy.  How about naming them after the effect,
> rather than the implementation?  It struck me that really these things
> are bit mutexes -- you can sleep while holding the lock.  How about
> calling them bit_mutex_trylock() and bit_mutex_unlock()?

bit_spin_trylock / bit_spin_unlock be OK? ;)
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